Con·vict v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Convicting.]
1. To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
He [Baxter] . . . had been convicted by a jury. --Macaulay.
They which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one. --John viii. 9.
2. To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.]
3. To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find. --Hooker.
4. To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.]
A whole armado of convicted sail. --Shak.
Syn: -- To confute; defect; convince; confound.
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convicted
adj : pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the
firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal"
[syn: condemned]